SCIENCE HISTORY QUIZ

Who is known as the father of modern physics?

• Albert Einstein

• Isaac Newton

• Galileo Galilei

• Niels Bohr

Which scientist developed the theory of general relativity?

• Albert Einstein

• Stephen Hawking

• Marie Curie

• Isaac Newton

What was the name of the first artificial satellite launched into space in 1957?

• Apollo 11

• Explorer 1

• Sputnik 1

• Voyager

Who discovered the law of universal gravitation?

• Galileo Galilei

• Isaac Newton

• Johannes Kepler

• James Clerk Maxwell

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Marie Curie was awarded two Nobel Prizes in which fields?

• Chemistry and Physics

• Physics and Medicine

• Chemistry and Biology

• Medicine and Physics

Who is credited with the discovery of penicillin in 1928?

• Alexander Fleming

• Louis Pasteur

• Robert Koch

• Edward Jenner

What groundbreaking book did Charles Darwin publish in 1859?

• Principia

• The Descent of Man

• The Origin of Species

• The Voyage of the Beagle

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Who was the first person to propose the heliocentric theory that the Earth orbits the Sun?

• Galileo Galilei

• Johannes Kepler

• Ptolemy

• Nicolaus Copernicus

Which Greek philosopher is known as the 'Father of Medicine'?

• Aristotle

• Hippocrates

• Socrates

• Plato

In what year did the Apollo 11 mission land the first humans on the moon?

• 1965

• 1967

• 1969

• 1971

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